Method Process.popen()

Method popen

string popen(string command)

Description

Executes command as a shell statement ("/bin/sh -c  command" for Unix, "cmd /c command" for Windows), waits until it has finished and returns the result as a string.

See also

system, spawn

Method popen

Stdio.FILE popen(string command, string mode)

Description

Open a "process" for reading or writing. The command is executed as a shell statement ("/bin/sh -c command" for Unix, "cmd /c command" for Windows). The parameter mode should be one of the following letters:

"r"	Open for reading. Data written by the process to stdout is available for read.
"w"	Open for writing. Data written to the file is available to the process on stdin.

See also

system, spawn